President Trump’s Sunday night rebuke of Pope Leo has sparked an international reaction, with senior English clergymen rallying around the Holy Father.
The 47th president of the United States took to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday evening to launch a 300-word tirade against the first Pope from the United States.
The president said that the pontiff was “WEAK on crime, and terrible for foreign policy.” In reference to Leo’s continued calls for peace, he said: “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela … And I don’t want a Pope who criticises the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected … to do.”
